Re: basic::string Formatting
mrc2323@cox.net (Mike Copeland) writes:
Is there a more convenient/simple way to specify string formatting
than the following?
ostringstream ossw;
string str;
long nts;
ossw.str(""), ossw << left << setw(12) << nts, str = ossw.str();
I have much of this type of code, with many setw() calls and various
right and left modifiers. It would be a lot simpler to have something
like "setwleft(12)" or something like that to reduce my code. (It might
execute faster, too...)
What's wrong with a function definition for repeating code?
::std::string printwleft( int const width, long const value )
{ ::std::ostringstream stream {};
stream << ::std::left << ::std::setw( width )<< value;
return stream.str(); }
You can also look at the more elaborate code in
From: Luca Risolia <luca.risolia@studio.unibo.it>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: printing in C++
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 20:35:22 +0100
Message-ID: <kht8pn$ndh$1@speranza.aioe.org>
that shows how to create a custom manipulator.
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